They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.

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Cody Bloomfield

September 13 2024, 6:00 a.m.

“Treating the Stop Camp Grayling protesters as terrorists is the latest episode in a worldwide trend of governments smearing climate and environmental activists as terrorists — an ongoing Green Scare. Misapplication of the terrorism label frequently serves as pretext for invasive surveillance and sustained scrutiny.”

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Same thing they've done with the Stop Cop City nonviolent protesters.

According to public records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, the local sheriff’s office in Oakland County, Michigan, documented the incident in a case report as a hate crime against law enforcement.

Your choice of profession is not a protected class, idiot.

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